Lex Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lex Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lex |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defense of a Libertarian Interpretation of Descartes' Account of Judgment 1
Widespread scholarly agreement has it that Descartes' theory of judgment favors a compatibilist interpretation. This essay explains and rebuts the standard arguments made on behalf of compatibilist readings, while explaining and defending a libertarian interpretation. Along with relevant Fourth Meditation doctrines and texts, my analysis encompasses a much discussed 1645 letter discussing his account. Although some scholars view the letter as dep…
Ideas, Pictures, and the Directness of Perception in Descartes and Locke
How are we to understand philosophical claims about sense perception being direct versus indirect? There are multiple relevant notions of perceptual directness, so I argue. Perception of external objects may be direct on some notions, while indirect on others. My interest is with the sense in which ideas count as perceptual mediators in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke. This paper has two broader aims. The first is to clarify four main notio…
Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology
This chapter contains sections titled: Descartes on Innateness Two Rationalist Doctrines The Methodical Case for the Two Rationalist Doctrines
Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge
Research Article| January 01 2004 Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge: Critical Notice of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt Lex Newman Lex Newman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 101–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-113-1-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lex Newman; Rocking the Foundati…
Berkeley's Thought
Berkeley's Thought
Cartesian Truth
The Fourth Meditation
Recent scholarship suggests that Descartes's effort to establish a truth criterion is not viciously circular (notwithstanding its reputation)-a fact that invites closer scrutiny of his epistemological program. One of the least well understood features of the project is his deduction of a truth criterion from theistic premises, a demonstration Descartes says he provides in the Fourth Meditation: the alleged proof is not revealed by a casual readin…
The Battle of the Gods and Giants
Descartes on Unknown Faculties and Our Knowledge of the External World
Descartes introduces his skeptical arguments, in the First Meditation, in an order of increasing strength. First, the narrator-meditator notices that judgments concerning the nature of small and distant objects are unreliable; later, that even sensory judgments about large and close objects are in doubt-this after considering an argument related to madness and another related to dreaming; finally, that no judgments resist doubt-the renowned Decei…
The Fourth Meditation
Recent scholarship suggests that Descartes's effort to establish a truth criterion is not viciously circular (notwithstanding its reputation)-a fact that invites closer scrutiny of his epistemological program. One of the least well understood features of the project is his deduction of a truth criterion from theistic premises, a demonstration Descartes says he provides in the Fourth Meditation: the alleged proof is not revealed by a casual readin…
Descartes on Unknown Faculties and Our Knowledge of the External World
Descartes introduces his skeptical arguments, in the First Meditation, in an order of increasing strength. First, the narrator-meditator notices that judgments concerning the nature of small and distant objects are unreliable; later, that even sensory judgments about large and close objects are in doubt-this after considering an argument related to madness and another related to dreaming; finally, that no judgments resist doubt-the renowned Decei…
Descartes on Unknown Faculties and Our Knowledge of the External World
Descartes introduces his skeptical arguments, in the First Meditation, in an order of increasing strength. First, the narrator-meditator notices that judgments concerning the nature of small and distant objects are unreliable; later, that even sensory judgments about large and close objects are in doubt-this after considering an argument related to madness and another related to dreaming; finally, that no judgments resist doubt-the renowned Decei…
The Battle of the Gods and Giants
The Fourth Meditation
Recent scholarship suggests that Descartes's effort to establish a truth criterion is not viciously circular (notwithstanding its reputation)-a fact that invites closer scrutiny of his epistemological program. One of the least well understood features of the project is his deduction of a truth criterion from theistic premises, a demonstration Descartes says he provides in the Fourth Meditation: the alleged proof is not revealed by a casual readin…
Cartesian Truth
Berkeley's Thought
Berkeley's Thought
Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge
Research Article| January 01 2004 Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge: Critical Notice of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt Lex Newman Lex Newman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 101–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-113-1-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lex Newman; Rocking the Foundati…
Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology
This chapter contains sections titled: Descartes on Innateness Two Rationalist Doctrines The Methodical Case for the Two Rationalist Doctrines
Ideas, Pictures, and the Directness of Perception in Descartes and Locke
How are we to understand philosophical claims about sense perception being direct versus indirect? There are multiple relevant notions of perceptual directness, so I argue. Perception of external objects may be direct on some notions, while indirect on others. My interest is with the sense in which ideas count as perceptual mediators in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke. This paper has two broader aims. The first is to clarify four main notio…
Defense of a Libertarian Interpretation of Descartes' Account of Judgment 1
Widespread scholarly agreement has it that Descartes' theory of judgment favors a compatibilist interpretation. This essay explains and rebuts the standard arguments made on behalf of compatibilist readings, while explaining and defending a libertarian interpretation. Along with relevant Fourth Meditation doctrines and texts, my analysis encompasses a much discussed 1645 letter discussing his account. Although some scholars view the letter as dep…
Philosophy (10 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · History of Science and Medicine (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Analytic philosophy (3 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · General interest (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)